"Daniel Richard G." <email address hidden> writes:
> How did PAM-related packages manage changes to /etc/pam.d/* before pam-
> auth-update came along? Yeah, automated editing is gauche, but it's not
> like you just can't do *anything* in that sort of scenario...
Doing nothing is exactly what they did, so far as I know. The base PAM
packages shipped the default files, and if the local sysadmin added any
additional modules, those files became modified conffiles and weren't
further changed by package installations.
"Daniel Richard G." <email address hidden> writes:
> How did PAM-related packages manage changes to /etc/pam.d/* before pam-
> auth-update came along? Yeah, automated editing is gauche, but it's not
> like you just can't do *anything* in that sort of scenario...
Doing nothing is exactly what they did, so far as I know. The base PAM
packages shipped the default files, and if the local sysadmin added any
additional modules, those files became modified conffiles and weren't
further changed by package installations.
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